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Gilbert Ngeno
Gilbert Ngeno

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What is the motivation behind the introduction of preflight CORS requests?

Cross-origin resource sharing is a mechanism that allows a web page to make XMLHttpRequests to another domain (from Wikipedia).

I've been fiddling with CORS for the last couple of days and I think I have a pretty good understanding of how everything works.

So my question is not about…

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